1 | This is the Character Sheet for the novel ''Literature/ChildrenOfMemory''. Major spoilers, given the layered mysteries of the novel, are unmarked! |
2 | |
3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
4 | |
5 | !!Crew of the Enkidu |
6 | |
7 | [[folder:Heorest Holt]] |
8 | Captain of the Enkidu and Liff's grandfather. |
9 | ----- |
10 | * AcePilot: Flies a shuttle that is falling apart between the starship and the colony, over and over. [[spoiler: Except that only happened in the simulation.]] |
11 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: Holds himself together to hold the crew together, so they can hold the ship or the colony together. Makes hard decisions. |
12 | [[/folder]] |
13 | |
14 | [[folder:Helena Garm]] |
15 | Chief of Security on the Enkidu. |
16 | [[/folder]] |
17 | |
18 | [[folder:Gembel]] |
19 | Second Chief Scientist on the Enkidu. Cobbles together an ecosystem for the Imir colony. [[spoiler: Except that only happened in the simulation.]] |
20 | [[/folder]] |
21 | |
22 | [[folder:Esi]] |
23 | Classicist on the Enkidu. |
24 | [[/folder]] |
25 | |
26 | |
27 | [[folder:Olf]] |
28 | Chief Engineer on the Enkidu. Kept the ship running during the journey and designed low-tech machines for the colony. |
29 | [[/folder]] |
30 | |
31 | |
32 | !!Colonists of Imir |
33 | |
34 | [[folder:Liff Holt]] |
35 | Granddaughter of the Enkidu's Captain Holt. Except when she's not, and is from the end of colony's history. For instance, in the base simulation. |
36 | |
37 | * SoleSurvivor: Is the last human alive in the simulation. |
38 | |
39 | [[/folder]] |
40 | |
41 | [[folder:Uncle Molder]] |
42 | Liff's lazy, mean, and xenophobic uncle. |
43 | [[/folder]] |
44 | |
45 | !!The starship Skipper |
46 | |
47 | [[folder:Miranda]] |
48 | A Human woman who is a refugee from the out-farms, and Liff's favorite schoolteacher. She knows things nobody else does and doesn't know things everybody does. And she has strange ideas about the world and how it should be... |
49 | |
50 | ----- |
51 | |
52 | * BrainUploading: She's a copy of the original Miranda. |
53 | * CoolTeacher: How Liff sees her. |
54 | * IdentityBreakdown: Is a human personality simulated by a horrifying alien assimilator, who remembers being horrified at said alien assimilator. She thinks she's over it, but she's really not. And that's where her trouble ''starts''. |
55 | * SplitPersonality. An alien version: thoughts and feelings from "Miranda"'s other recorded personalities leak into her awareness... which sometimes makes her Miranda personality lose coherence! |
56 | * TheFace: As the least strange member of the survey team, she does most of the talking. |
57 | * UncannyValley: Miranda's body freezes while she breaks and pulls her mind together. |
58 | [[/folder]] |
59 | |
60 | [[folder:Fabian]] |
61 | A Portiid wearing a human body. [[spoiler: The version in the simulation is actually Miranda having an existential crisis.]] |
62 | |
63 | ----- |
64 | |
65 | * MrFixit: His role in the town of Landfall. He even names his shop Fabian's Fix-It. |
66 | |
67 | [[/folder]] |
68 | |
69 | [[folder:Portia]] |
70 | A Portiid wearing a human body. [[spoiler: The version in the simulation is actually Miranda having an existential crisis.]] |
71 | ----- |
72 | |
73 | * ActionGirl: As is common among Portiids. |
74 | * ClassicalHunter: Embraces this role, tracking down escaped hogs in the woods. |
75 | * {{Tomboy}}: The townspeople notice how much she takes to hunting, guns, and manual labor. |
76 | [[/folder]] |
77 | |
78 | [[folder:Paul]] |
79 | An octopus wearing nine human bodies. [[spoiler: The version in the simulation is actually Miranda having an existential crisis.]] |
80 | |
81 | ----- |
82 | |
83 | * CreepyChild: Paul's children are unnaturally coordinated. |
84 | * HiveMind: The brains in Paul's ''arms'' are each put in a child body. |
85 | * HughMann: The strangest member of the group. |
86 | * MadArtist: He makes inhuman paintings. |
87 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When Paul is threatened, they are unnaturally coordinated - and holding knives. |
88 | [[/folder]] |
89 | |
90 | [[folder:Kern]] |
91 | See her entry on Characters/ChildrenOfRuin. |
92 | [[/folder]] |
93 | |
94 | [[folder:Goethi and Gethli]] |
95 | Ambassadors from Rourke who join the expedition to Imir. |
96 | |
97 | ----- |
98 | |
99 | * CleverCrows |
100 | * {{Familiar}}: Liff interprets them as Kern's familiars. It doesn't help that they follow Kern's commands and perch on her shoulder. |
101 | * HiveMind: Each pair of Corvids form a complete brain. |
102 | [[/folder]] |
103 | |
104 | !! Rourc |
105 | [[folder:Renée Pepper]] |
106 | Terraformer who survived the apocalypse of the ancients and made her best effort to get any life to survive on Rourke. |
107 | [[/folder]] |
108 | |
109 | [[folder:Corvidsof Rourke]] |
110 | The intelligent and possibly sentient species of Corvids who became the dominant species on Rourke. |
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